Dr. Jeff Spencer
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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And I also realize that you always have enough energy to do anything on behalf of others, or if you're called into service, there's always gonna be enough energy. Where the energy gets sparse is where we're doing everything in our own self-interest, or we're in such fear of loss that we kind of worry our life and our energy away.
And the other thing that I will say is that if you think anything you say and do as relates to this topic of legacy, When we adopted our daughter, man, she'd never been hugged, never been loved. She used to wrap her legs around me and bury her head into my chest and I'd just hold her, you know? And it's like, she hung on my every word. So what I want to say to everybody is that
If you think what you do and what you say and how you show up doesn't matter, adopt a kid. Because everything that you do in life does have some level of impact that calls people to something. And when you take the high road and you're manifestly committed to that where there is no negotiation on that, your life takes on an entirely different level of purpose and meaning.
And the last thing I'll say about this is that you never withhold the possibility of a miracle because that's what it took us to be able to help our daughter get to a point to get beyond what she did not ask for in life that was imposed upon her by other people.
And so that's why legacy is important to me, because at the end of the day, we do have an immortality that will be there, that will say something of tremendous value to people. But please don't make it like my dad. My dad was the genius that could have, but didn't. And he can't go back and redeem himself. His moniker, his tagline is, don't be like me.
And it's tragic for me to have to say that, but we do make our own choices. And if we can't do it for ourselves, let's just make sure we do it for other people. So other people at least have a template they can look at that's inspirational to them to be able to step into the unknown with confidence and certainty with a certain amount of reckless abandon.
to what we think that we probably need, which you probably need to get rid of if you're going to live the greatest life possible. So that's kind of what I would have to answer the legacy question with.
Ken, K-I-N.
She'll be 24 in October.
Well, again, she's... She's a miracle because, you know, I knew that when she graduated from college, she didn't speak any English. We didn't speak Spanish. There was no language. I mean, think about that. Come to America at 10 and you don't have any language and you don't have any school. What are you going to do with that?
And so because she has a beautiful brain, you know, God put a beautiful brain inside of her. And we saw that and we knew that our job was, again, to manifest the potential, not to save a life that we did. you know, what we had to do so that she could live her life with the normal crap that all of us have to deal with day in and day out, but find your way beyond the stuff that you didn't ask for.
And so we couldn't be more, you know, proud of her for what she has done, but have been gifted with the opportunity to play that role in her life.
Well, resources are extraordinarily important. And an inventory should be taken of the resources before you actively start pursuing your goal. Because And adequate resource inventory is directly tied to your level of confidence. And as you're confident and you trust in your preparation, then your anxiety drops. And as your anxiety drops, you're going to be a much better performer.
Your timing is going to be superior, which is what we need to be able to get our goal aspiration launched correctly. to gain initial momentum, to gradually pick up the steam where we get into belief that we can actually do it, that transforms to knowing that we can do it, to being able to complete the goal itself. When I look at the resources that we need, and it doesn't need to be
enough for the entire project. It needs to be enough to get started with responsibly. So we need, what do we need? Well, we need time and energy for sure. We need what? We need materials and supplies. Absolutely. We need skills and knowledge. We also need a team. We got the right team. Do we have a plan? Do we have the financial resources to at least initially get this started?
All of those have to be answered in the affirmative to, again, be in trust. And when we're in trust, again, anxiety drops, confidence is up, and that's the way that you wanna always actively start pursuing your goal. I have observed, though, that many people are extraordinarily deficient and lax in their attention to resources. They feel like, well, if I don't get going now as quickly as possible,
then it means I don't trust the universe to provide when it should. Therefore, the universe is going to take away from me that privilege. It's not going to support me because I don't have enough faith in it. Or somebody's going to jump in line, so I got to get going now because I'm afraid that I'll get pushed to the back of the line. I mean, none of that is true. That's all mythology.
But yet, that's the way the human mindset thinks about this type of stuff because it's basically a catastrophizer. And that's why when we do our homework, again, you know, do the homework first, then the test is easy. Why we always want to do that so that we can check off and trust that we have adequate resources to get started, something most people don't do.
I do, I do. It's like, I've always said that you can never have enough skills And you also need a lot of space to be able to create in. And kind of my suggestion to people is that you're only as strong as your toolkit is of skills to be able to be applied. And you must have a minimum amount of skills that should be vetted accurately before you start pursuing your goal. You must also have
adequate space and flexibility to be able to absorb some of the unanticipated consequences that always shows up. Like it always takes us twice as long and maybe cost twice as much as you think that it's going to. And I'm just going to suggest that you don't try to have a budget where everything has to go perfectly for things to go right. I don't like that.
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